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A prickly pear growing pad on pad from the bottom edge on cream. Its spines are marked in fine cream strokes, with magenta fruit crowning the top pads.
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Keffiyeh & Land

Sabr

No. 16 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA prickly pear growing pad on pad from the bottom edge on cream. Its spines are marked in fine cream strokes, with magenta fruit crowning the top pads.

What it meansThe prickly pear, called sabr in Arabic, grows along field edges and old village terraces across Palestine, and its fruit is eaten in late summer. The word sabr also means patience, a meaning often attached to the plant.

Where it worksA sculptural plant drawn in flat greens with bright magenta accents. It brings a strong silhouette and a touch of colour to a plain wall.

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A close still life: a whole fig and a cut one showing its pink centre, a lemon with a leaf and a lemon halved. They sit on cream above an olive-green surface.Figs and LemonsNo. 17
A flowering almond branch crossing a deep indigo ground: five-petalled cream blossoms with a pink blush and crimson hearts, a few pink buds, and petals drifting below.Almond BlossomNo. 18
The keffiyeh's fishnet in black on cream meets a counted field of red cross-stitch stars. The two patterns join along a single diagonal seam in black and red.SeamNo. 19
The fishnet pattern woven on cream. Black threads run one way, deep sea blue and wheat gold the other, passing over and under at every crossing.Three ThreadsNo. 20
The keffiyeh's fishnet enlarged until only a handful of diamonds fit the sheet. Every square of the weave is drawn as three woven threads in black on cream.The Net, CloseNo. 1
The keffiyeh's fishnet in black on cream, each square woven from three threads. In the diamond at the centre a star has been worked in red cross-stitch, its points reaching almost to the net around it.The Net, Red ThreadNo. 2
The fishnet pattern as op art. The lattice swells through a lens at its centre, lines thickening and diamonds opening, with a small cream knot at each crossing.Op NetNo. 3
The border of a keffiyeh at wall scale. Fishnet at the top gives way to bold and fine black stripes, a band of olive leaves, and a knotted fringe along the bottom.Edge, with FringeNo. 4

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